Zero Turning Radius began with a question (‘How can the orchestra continue to be relevant?’); a challenge (‘I must now do my utmost to remove a delimiting frame’); and a prayer sent out to the future that the orchestra – such a beautiful, multi-limbed, amphibious creature – can be a playground in contexts and for musics that remain yet unimagined and can be created in any number of different ways. Zero Turning Radius is about the joy of steering a powerful, enormous, and fleet entity like an orchestra: shifting and dancing, turning on a dime. The idea for the piece was inspired while using a zero turning radius mower.
– Han Lash
